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05-29-2011, 04:39 AM
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Ministers have tried to highlight the impact of benefit fraud by publishing some of the more unusual excuses used by people found guilty of cheating. Reasons include carrying ladders as therapy rather than for cleaning windows, and claiming an ...
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